Career

Amanda Ripley writes about human behavior and public policy for Time magazine and The Atlantic. She is currently an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation. Her 2008 book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why explains how the brain works in disasters—and how we can do better. The Unthinkable was made into a PBS documentary called "Surviving Disaster".

Ripley has written feature stories about what makes a great teacher for The Atlantic and about education fever in Korea for TIME Magazine.

Amanda Ripley (character)

Amanda "Amy" Ripley is a fictional character in the Alien franchise. The daughter of the protagonist of the film series, Ellen Ripley, Amanda is first introduced in the extended version of Aliens. Amanda Ripley is the protagonist of the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation, which is set 42 years prior to Aliens.

Conception and creation

A deleted scene from Aliens, which was later included on DVD releases, reveals that Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) has a daughter, Amanda. She was ten years old during the events of Alien, but grew up, married (taking on the surname McClaren) and died during her mother's 57-year stasis between the events of the first two films. A picture of Amanda as an elderly adult is shown to Ripley. The picture is actually Weaver's real-life mother, Elizabeth Inglis. The scene was cut from the film due to 20th Century Fox's concerns about length. Weaver was furious at the removal, considering it to be crucial to Ellen Ripley's character development in the film, taking on a protective mother role to the young character Rebecca "Newt" Jorden. In James Cameron's 1983 Alien IItreatment for what would become Aliens, Amanda (then unnamed) was alive, but old and crippled. When her mother contacted her from the Gateway Station, Amanda blames her for her absence.

Career

Amanda Ripley writes about human behavior and public policy for Time magazine and The Atlantic. She is currently an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation. Her 2008 book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why explains how the brain works in disasters—and how we can do better. The Unthinkable was made into a PBS documentary called "Surviving Disaster".

Ripley has written feature stories about what makes a great teacher for The Atlantic and about education fever in Korea for TIME Magazine.

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Blackout sees AmandaRipley on a broken space station, once again isolated, with a stalking xenomorph on board. A small crew of four with a broken ship stumble across the station, and essentially it’s up to Amanda to ......

Blackout sees AmandaRipley on a broken space station, once again isolated, with a stalking xenomorph on board. A small crew of four with a broken ship stumble across the station, and essentially it’s up to Amanda to ......

“Alien. Blackout” feels like a game made for on-the-go gadgets, delivering a tense experience through its platform of choice in a way that better draws players into the xenophobic world of AmandaRipley. That the game — which many hoped would be a sequel to computer and console title “Alien. Isolation” — was made for […] ... ....

When a new Alien title was teased, namely one that would continue the tale of AmandaRipley from Alien. Isolation, fans were fairly ecstatic. Of course, when the announcement of Alien. Blackout as a mobile title was made, FoxNext incurred quite a bit of wrath ... Blackout ... We can tell more stories about AmandaRipley without it being an ‘Isolation’ game.”....

Updated January 8th at 10.10am. Pre-orders for Alien...AmandaRipley's next adventure will set you back �4.99/$4.99 on iOS, and while a price isn't available on Android, you can expect it to clock in around the same mark ... [MORE] ... ....

It was revealed yesterday that Alien. Blackout would be headed to mobile devices, and the internet isn't too happy about that. Additionally, Alien ...Isolation's AmandaRipley, it isn't the direct sequel to the 2014 survival horror title that many were hoping for. Continue reading… ... ....

FoxNext confirmed that beyond Blackout, there’s “even more entries in AmandaRipley’s story soon to be announced”, before going on to explicitly mention the ColdIron Studios game, which, interestingly enough, they also confirmed is an MMO shooter ... #ReadPlayWATCH #AmandaRipley— Alien (@AlienAnthology) January 7, 2019. ....

Whatever happened to AmandaRipley? ... Except that the official Alien Twitter account has started teasing something that stars AmandaRipley and involves uncovering the secrets ‘left behind’ by the crew of the Nostromo in the original film....

“Alien. Blackout” is a mobile game in development from FoxNext Games, D3 Go!, and Rival Games that puts players in the boots of AmandaRipley aboard an alien-infested Weyland-Yutani space station. In the game, players need to guide their crew to safety and avoid encounters with the alien ... ....

Alien. Isolation star AmandaRipley will return for a new mobile game, Alien. Blackout. It sounds very similar to Isolation on paper - you'll be exploring a Weyland-Yutani space station and avoiding a relentless Xenomorph as it hunts you down ... ....